Theale & Tilehurst Friendly XI vs Martinstown 28th July 2008

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Report by Fingers.

After Micky had led a fine survey of Chesil beach in the morning and lunch in the Riverhouse at Upwhey it was on to Martinstown for the second game of the tour and a second game on an artificial pitch.  We met up with Lemmy who had joined the tour late and already helped himself to a free lunch from our hosts for the day.

 

With the previous game on an artificial relatively high scoring the same was expected again, especially as there were some short boundaries in places, albeit some of the others were very long.

Martinstown won the toss and elected to bat and after Lemmy got rid of Milverton the youthful Lewis and Moss played the main partnership of the day.  This shouldn’t have been allowed to happen but unfortunately Spike and Meady ran in to each other and the chance to get rid of Moss was missed.  Lewis, who plays for Dorset u14s, played the better of the two and made it through to fifty; Moss also followed in reaching fifty but relied heavily on the bottom hand and hits through mid wicket, something we should have been able to cope with but didn’t.

 

When Lewis finally went to Dicko Moss soon followed and with the introduction of Osman in to the attack 136-1 became 146-6 in no time.  However, the collapse was halted by Nichols in the main who scored an excellent fifty.  With Kershaw he took the score past 200 to set what would be a challenging total.

 

After tea Meady and Aygz opened the batting and got us off to a steady start. Aygz was the first to go for 23 and after another promising partnership Dopey went for 18.  Unfortunately this was to be the shape of things to come, batsmen getting starts and small partnerships being formed but not going on.  The main hope seemed to be Meady but after he had batted very well to reach 61 he was caught at long off trying to lift the scoring rate.

With Colly at hospital having the ever expanding bite on the back of his leg looked at when Dicko was out bowled by Adams that was it and we had fallen thirty runs short of our total.

This was a very enjoyable match against what seems to be a well organised club that is looking to grow and develop.  Good luck to Martinstown in their plans to lay a grass square at the ground and hopefully we’ll be back in future years.

THEALE AND TILEHURST CC SCORECARD
Home Team Martinstown Away Team Theale & Tilehurst
Date of Match 28th July 2008 Played at Martinstown
Team Result Team
Result Martinstown beat Theale & Tilehurst
1st Innings of Martinstown
Name How Out Who Bowler 4's 6's Score
1 P Milverton bowled C Lemm C Lemm 5
2 H Lewis ct O Mahmood M Dixon 61
3 L Moss ct C Lemm 51
4 S Dawson bowled O Mahmood 0
5 T Adams bowled O Mahmood 0
6 E Nichols ct P Ager O Mahmood 53
7 L House run out 1
8 S Kershaw bowled O Mahmood 20
9 C Read not out 6
10 B Wood run out 5
11 M Clarke not out 0
Byes 13
Leg Byes 5
Wides 6
No Balls 2
Extras 26
Wickets 9 Total 228
Bowling O M R W
1 C Lemm 8 2 22 2
2 C Collingwood 8 0 45 0
3 M Mason 8 0 49 0
4 M Dixon 8 0 47 1
5 O Mahmood 5 0 16 4
6 D Robertson 3 0 31 0
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Fall of Wicket
Score Outgoing Bat Stand of
1 11 1 11
2 136 2 125
3 136 3 0
4 136 4 0
5 137 5 1
6 146 7 9
7 212 6 66
8 212 8 0
9 228 10 16
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2nd Innings of Theale & Tilehurst
Name How Out Who Bowler 4's 6's Score
1 P Mead ct Read Adams 9 61
2 P Ager bowled Wood 3 23
3 D Robertson bowled Wood 1 1 18
4 O Mahmood ct Adams Wood 1
5 H Ali ct Dawson Adams 3 21
6 C Lemm lbw Adams 1 10
7 M Mason bowled Lewis 3 20
8 M Dixon bowled Adams 1 8
9 J Morris lbw Lewis 0
10 P Jenkins not out 0
11 C Collingwood absent
Byes 4
Leg Byes 5
Wides 13
No Balls 6
Extras 28
Wickets 10 Total 190
Bowling O M R W
1 Read 5 0 14 0
2 Clarke 8 0 65 0
3 Wood 6 1 21 3
4 Kershaw 3 0 23 0
5 Adams 6.2 0 24 4
6 Lewis 6 0 34 2
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Fall of Wicket
Score Outgoing Bat Stand of
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